On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: Revolution Sunday
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Wendy Guerra
Original work: Domingo de Revolución
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9781612196619
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer daughter of a Cuban dissident falls in love with an actor making a documentary about her father, but soon discovers that neither the actor nor her father are who she thought they were.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Revulsion : Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
Translator(s): Lee Klein
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El asco : Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 9780811225397
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Rex
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Original work: Rex
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780802118790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Proust-worshipping narrator falls into the dangerous world of the Russian mob in this novel run amok by the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.
Additional Information: Responsibility: José́ Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Humorous fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Dust jackets (binding), Romans

Title: Ripper
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9780062379597
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indiana Jackson is 33 years old and works in an alternative medicine clinic in San Francisco that attracts all sorts of characters, some of them skeptics, who fall for her candor and humility. Her teenage daughter, Amanda likes… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: Ripper
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: Fourth Estate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9780007548958
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For Amanda Martín and her friends, Ripper started off as just a game. But then the murders began and San Francisco found itself once more in the grip of a cold-blooded killer. The police can't crack the case alone, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: Ripper
Translator(s): Oliver Brock, Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9780062291400
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: Ripper (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Oliver Brock, Frank Wynne
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El juego de Ripper
Publisher: HarperLuxe
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 658 pp.
ISBN: 9780062298737
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian who looks… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Amateur sleuth mystery, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Parodies, imitations, etc, Mystery fiction

Title: River of Sorrows
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Libertad Demitrópulos
Original work: Río de las congojas
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 1877727881
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) River of Sorrows is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the settlement of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Room 702
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Paloma Aínsa
Original work: Siete cero dos
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 292 pp.
ISBN: 9781503945838
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Valencia native Emma isn’t looking for love when her best pals take her out on the town for her thirty-second birthday. But after just enough cocktails at their favorite bar, the trio encounters John Davies, a British movie… read more

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 1583226095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Rosario Tijeras
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Jorge Franco Ramos
Original work: Rosario Tijeras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9781583226780
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love." So begins Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman on the run in 1980s… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Ruth : The One Who Fled the Bible
Translator(s): Deborah Ann Dougherty
Author: Josefina Leyva
Original work: Rut, la que huyó de la Biblia
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 1931948585
Literary Genre: Fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Saint Manuel, Martyr
Translator(s): Marciano Guerrero
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: San Manuel Bueno, mártir
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 68 pp.
ISBN: 9781494996321
Literary Genre: Fiction, Religious fiction

Title: San Juan Noir
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: San Juan noir
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781617752964
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Puerto Rico is often portrayed as sandy beaches, casinos, luxury hotels, relaxation, and never-ending pleasure--a place that satisfies all senses and appetites. Yet the city of San Juan is much more than that. The capital of the… read more

Title: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios Del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Translator(s): Barbara Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Sanctuaries of the Heart = Santuarios del Corazón : A Novella in English and Spanish
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780816524655
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Sangama : A Story of the Amazon Jungle
Translator(s): Raymond A. Enstam
Author: Arturo D. Hernández
Original work: Sangama : novela de la selva amazónica
Publisher: Quaestor Press, Ltd.
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 357 pp.
ISBN: 9781514308622
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Sangama: A Story of the Amazon Jungle tells the story of a young man, Abel Barcas, entering the Peruvian Amazon in the early twentieth century to make his fortune in the then booming trade in natural rubber. He meets an older… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Adventure stories

Title: Santa : A Novel of Mexico City
Translator(s): John Charles Chasteen
Author: Federico Gamboa
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1238 pp.
ISBN: 9780807899502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the… read more

Title: Savage Theories
Translator(s): Roy Kesey
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Original work: Teorías salvajes
Publisher: Soho
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781616957353
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction

Title: Scales
Translator(s): Joseph Mulligan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9780819577238
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author's early experimentalism. A follow-up to… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Scar
Translator(s): Adriana Nodal-Tarafa
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cicatriz
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781943150274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction